Kalb, Grossman and Katz

Danny Kalb has long been recognized as one of
America's foremost guitarists. Born into a musical
family, Danny was raised in Mount Vernon, NY. He
picked up the guitar at age 13 and he hasn't put it
down since. A protege of the great Dave Van Ronk,
Danny Kalb established himself in New York's seminal
folk and blues scene where he was first known as a
solo performer and session player with Phil Ochs, Judy
Collins, Pete Seeger and others. He later became one
half of the The New Strangers with Sam Charters and
Dave Van Ronk's Ragtime Jug Stompers. In 1965, Kalb
founded the Verve/Folkways recording group, The Blues
Project, with Al Kooper, Roy Blumenfeld, Andy Kulberg,
Tommy Flanders and Steve Katz. In the early seventies,
Danny & Stefan Grossman recorded an album together
called Crosscurrents. Danny still performs in clubs,
teaches guitar and records. His touch on the guitar is
as exciting and as individual as ever.

Guitarist, educator and historian Stefan
Grossman was a student of acoustic blues and gospel
singer/guitarist Rev. Gary Davis. Beginning when he
was 15, Grossman studied with Davis on weekends,
spending eight to ten hours at his house in Harlem,
absorbing all he could. In the early 1960s, Grossman
formed the Even Dozen Jug Band and worked with the
political rock band the Fugs before moving to Great
Britain. In 1968, he co-founded Kicking Mule Records .
Grossman's solo discography goes all the way back to
1966, when he recorded How to Play Blues Guitar for
Elektra Records. Grossman's sessionography includes
recordings with the Even Dozen Jug Band (which also
included such future luminaries as John Sebastian,
Maria Muldaur ,David Grisman, and Steve Katz. Stefan
concentrates his efforts these days on running his
instructional video business, Vestapol Videos. His
videos feature guitarists from Merle Travis and Chet
Atkins to Dave Van Ronk and Brownie McGhee. He remains
one of the world's foremost authorities on acoustic
blues guitar.

Steve Katz also studied guitar with Dave Van
Ronk and the Reverend Gary Davis. There were many
other young musicians around Greenwich Village during
this time who were as obsessed with American roots
music as Steve and Stefan. Many would look for a
common ground in which to play music together and they
found the common ground in jug band music.Along with
John Sebastian, Maria Muldaur, and David Grisman they
formed the Even Dozen Jug Band and recorded an album
for Elektra in 1964. In 1965, Steve joined Danny Kalb
in the Blues Project. They recorded three albums while
together in their first incarnation. Steve then became
a founding member of Blood, Sweat Tears , which won
three Grammies and sold millions of records worldwide.
After BS&T, Steve went on to produce two Lou Reed
albums, both of which went into Billboards Top Ten.
His last official band membership was with American
Flyer in the mid-seventies. Steve then went on to
become a Vice-President of Mercury Records where he
produced the seminal Irish band, Horslips. Today he is
a professional photographer and is partners with his
wife Alison Palmer, a ceramic artist